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While security of the nuclear facilities and materials the NRC regulates has always been a priority, the terrorist attack of Sept. 11, 2001, brought heightened scrutiny and spurred more stringent security requirements. Today, NRC-regulated nuclear facilities are among the most secure of the nation’s critical infrastructure. In fact, one member of Congress rated nuclear plant security the strongest among the nation’s civilian infrastructure.
This heightened security is achieved in layers, with multiple approaches concurrently at work – just as safety in nuclear power plants is accomplished through duplicate back-up systems. To begin with, nuclear power plants are inherently secure, robust structures, built to withstand hurricanes, tornadoes and earthquakes. Additional security measures are in place: well trained and armed security officers; equipment and structures, including physical barriers, intrusion detection and surveillance systems; and access controls. Another layer of protection is in place for coordinating threat information and response. The NRC works closely with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), FBI, intelligence agencies, the departments of Defense and Energy, states, and local law enforcement. These relationships ensure the NRC can act quickly on any threats that might affect its licensed facilities and allows effective emergency response from “outside the fence” should a serious terrorist attack occur.
For several years following 9/11, the NRC required many security enhancements at its licensed power reactors, decommissioning reactors, independent spent fuel storage installations, research and test reactors, uranium conversion facilities, gaseous diffusion plants, fuel fabrication facilities, large irradiators, manufacturers and distributors, transportation, and licensees with greater than IAEA category 2 material. The NRC directed nuclear power plants and fuel fabrication facilities to upgrade their physical security plans, security officer training and qualification plans, and contingency plans. These facilities now have, among other heightened measures:
• More patrols
• Stronger and more capable security forces
• Additional physical barriers
• Greater stand-off distances for vehicle checks
• More restrictive site access controls
• Enhanced emergency preparedness and response plans
One of the most important components of security programs at nuclear power facilities is the security force. Over the past five years, the NRC has required power plants to add more training and higher qualification standards for security personnel, while substantially increasing the number of officers on the force. Plant security officers, for example, must now be trained under more realistic conditions and against moving targets. In order to minimize security personnel fatigue and ensure a vigilant and effective security force, the NRC has instituted additional fitness-for-duty requirements and work hours controls.
In accordance with the Energy Policy Act of 2005, the NRC has also strengthened requirements for fingerprinting and background checks for various types of licensees and certificate holders. On Jan. 4, 2006, the NRC entered into an agreement with the federal government’s Terrorist Screening Center to review records of individuals with unescorted access to nuclear power reactor facilities. This collaborative effort automated and streamlined the collection and dissemination of information used to determine the trustworthiness of individuals who have unescorted access to certain vital areas of nuclear power plants. It also enhances the process of identifying anyone with access to these areas who may pose a threat to national security.
i guess i can never access my bank account again 'cause i'm not doing this. i refuse. it is stupid. it does not verify identity. it just verifies that i have an email address or phone number.
The 2014 Global Security Forum will be held on Wednesday, November 12th from 8:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m. at CSIS headquarters located at 1616 Rhode Island Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20036.
2014 AGENDA
OPENING SESSION: 8:00 A.M. TO 9:00 A.M.
Keynote Address: "Strategic and Budgetary Dynamics Facing the U.S. Military"
The Honorable Robert O. Work
U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense
MORNING BREAKOUT SESSIONS I: 9:30-10:45 A.M.
I. Sequestration and the Politics of Defense Affordability
Jim Dyer
Principal, Podesta Group,
and former Staff Director, House Committee on Appropriations
Charles J. Houy
Former Staff Director, Senate Committee on Appropriations
Robert F. Hale
Former Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) and Chief Financial Officer
Sid Ashworth
Corporate Vice President, Government Relations, Northrop Grumman Corporation, and former Staff Director, Defense Subcommittee, Senate Committee on Appropriations
Moderator:
Clark A. Murdock
Senior Adviser and Director, Defense and National Security Group and Project on Nuclear Issues, CSIS
II. Troubled Seas: Maritime Tension in Asia
Richard L. Armitage
President, Armitage International,
and former Deputy Secretary of State
Kurt Campbell
Founding Partner, Chairman, and CEO, The Asia Group,
and former Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
Bonnie S. Glaser
Senior Adviser for Asia, Freeman Chair in China Studies, CSIS
Website Presentation:
Mira Rapp Hooper
Fellow, Asia Program, and Director, Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative, CSIS
Moderator:
Michael J. Green
Senior Vice President for Asia and Japan Chair, CSIS,
and Associate Professor, Georgetown University
III. Civil-Military Relations: The Legacy of Iraq and Afghanistan
Mark Perry
Author, The Most Dangerous Man in America and Partners in Command
COL Richard Lacquement (ret.)
Dean, School of Strategic Landpower, Army War College
Eliot A. Cohen
Robert E. Osgood Professor of Strategic Studies, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and former Counselor, Department of State
Moderator:
Kathleen H. Hicks
Senior Vice President, Henry A. Kissinger Chair, and Director, International Security Program, CSIS
IV. Health and Security in Fragile States
Gayle Smith
Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Global Development, Democracy, and Humanitarian Assistance Issues, National Security Council
Bruce Eshaya-Chauvin
Medical Adviser, Health Care in Danger, International Committee of the Red Cross
Jason Cone
Director of Communications, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières
Nancy E. Lindborg
Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance, USAID
Moderator:
Talia Dubovi
Associate Director and Senior Fellow, Global Health Policy Center, CSIS
MORNING BREAKOUT SESSIONS II: 11:00 A.M.-12:15 P.M.
I. The Defense Industrial Base and Federated Defense
William J. Lynn III
CEO, Finmeccanica North America and DRS Technologies,
and former Deputy Secretary of Defense
Robert J. Stevens
Former Chairman and CEO, Lockheed Martin Corporation
Clayton M. Jones
Former Chairman and CEO, Rockwell Collins
Pierre Chao
Managing Partner and Cofounder, Renaissance Strategic Advisors, and Senior Associate, Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group, CSIS
Moderator:
Andrew P. Hunter
Director, Defense-Industrial Initatives Group, and Senior Fellow, International Security Program, CSIS
II. Iraq in the Balance
VADM Robert S. Harward (ret.)
Chief Executive, Lockheed Martin UAE, and former Deputy Commander, U.S. Central Command
General James E. Cartwright (ret.)
Harold Brown Chair in Defense Policy Studies, CSIS, and former Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
Moderator:
Jon B. Alterman
Senior Vice President, Zbigniew Brzezinski Chair in Global Security and Geostrategy, and Director, Middle East Program, CSIS
III. Military Innovation and Changing Ways of War
Arati Prabhakar
Director, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Lt. Gen Robert E. Schmidle Jr.
Principal Deputy Director, Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation, Office of the Secretary of Defense
Moderator:
Maren Leed
Senior Adviser, Harold Brown Chair in Defense Policy Studies, CSIS
IV. Expanded U.S. Engagement to Combat Ebola in West Africa
Tom Frieden
Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Anne A. Witkowsky
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Stability and Humanitarian Affairs
Ambassador Donald Lu
Deputy Coordinator for Ebola Response, U.S. Department of State
Jeremy Konyndyk
Director, Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance, USAID
Moderator:
J. Stephen Morrison
Senior Vice President and Director, Global Health Policy Center, CSIS
LUNCH: 12:15-12:45 P.M.
MID-DAY PLENARY SESSION: 12:45-1:45 P.M.
I. Looking Ahead to 2017: Creating a Renewed Vision for U.S. Leadership in the World
Jeremy Bash
Founder and Managing Director, Beacon Global Strategies, Senior Adviser, International Security Program, CSIS, and former Chief of Staff to Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta
Kori Schake
Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, and former Senior Policy Adviser to the McCain-Palin Campaign
Moderator:
David E. Sanger
National Security Correspondent, New York Times
CLOSING PLENARY SESSION: 2:00-3:30 P.M
I. A Simulated Crisis with Russia: European Energy and Other Unconventional Challenges
Richard L. Armitage
President, Armitage International, and former Deputy Secretary of State
Michèle Flournoy
Cofounder and CEO, Center for a New American Security, and former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy
General James E. Cartwright (ret.)
Harold Brown Chair in Defense Policy Studies, CSIS, and former Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
John E. McLaughlin
Distinguished Practitioner-in-Residence, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and former Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
James B. Steinberg
Dean, Maxwell School, Syracuse University, and former Deputy Secretary of State
Charles B. Curtis
Senior Adviser, Energy and National Security Program, CSIS, and former Deputy Secretary of Energy
Joshua B. Bolten
Managing Director, Rock Creek Global Advisors, and former White House Chief of Staff
Moderators:
Kathleen H. Hicks
Senior Vice President, Henry A. Kissinger Chair, and Director, International Security Program, CSIS
Heather A. Conley
Senior Vice Presdient for Europe, Eurasia, adn the Arctic, and Director, Europe Program, CSIS
*Please note that this session is off-the-record
Contributing CSIS Experts:
Frank A. Verrastro
Senior Vice President and James R. Schlesinger Chair for Energy and Geopolitics, CSIS
Sarah O. Ladislaw
Director and Senior Fellow, Energy and National Security Program, CSIS
Edward C. Chow
Senior Fellow, Energy and National Security Program, CSIS
James A. Lewis
Director and Senior Fellow, Strategic Technologies Program, CSIS
Andrew C. Kuchins
Director and Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program, CSIS
Jeffrey Mankoff
Deputy Director and Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program, CSIS
Juan Zarate
Senior Advsier, Transnational Threats Project and Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Program, CSIS
Programs
GLOBAL SECURITY FORUM
Topics
DEFENSE AND SECURITY, INTERNATIONAL SECURITY
Regions
AFGHANISTAN, ASIA, IRAQ, MIDDLE EAST, RUSSIA
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Iraqi Army soldiers check weapons seized by Iraqi security forces during recent operations in Baghdad's Abu Ghraib suburb, Iraq, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010. (
A nuclear plant security guard is in position in front of the facility entrance gate.
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The IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano (left) at the 50th Munich Security Conference during a panel discussion on Iran with HE Mr Mohammad Javad Zarif, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Islamic Republic of Iran (left centre), HE Mr Carl Bildt, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Kingdom of Sweden, (middle) and Senator Christopher Murphy, United States of America. (right)
Photo Credit: Cornel Feruta / IAEA
FIGI Security Clinic: Securing the infrastructure and applications for digital financial services
Geneva, Switzerland, 4-5 December 2019
©ITU/ D. Woldu
Make nice seats for tired tourists to take the sun.
I don't think the concrete barriers are there because we afraid of car bombs - it's the start of the Tour de France tomorrow and much of central London is being prepared. We've had some events here but this is going to be a big one.
Security fences were being delivered along both sides of the Thames in Central London ready for the New Year's Eve celebrations and fireworks. This truck load were being delivered behind the Royal Festival Hall on Belvedere Road! Happy Fence Friday everyone, and a happy New Year!
The lure of the Smart Grid appears irresistible. If Smart Grids can realize their full potential then consumers, utilities, nations, and even the earth itself will benefit. Unfortunately, as with nearly any new technology, the focus has been on getting Smart Grids up and running, often with little consideration for Cyber Security.
International Conference on Computer Security in a Nuclear World: Expert Discussion and Exchange. Vienna, Austria, 1 June 2015.
From left to right: Khammar Mrabit, Director, Division of Nuclear Security, Department of Nuclear Safety and Security, Frans Vreeswijk, General Secretary and CEO International Electrotechnical Commission, Leif, Villadsen, Deputy Director, United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute, Brahima Sanou, Director, Telecommunication Development Bureau, International Telecommunication Union. IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano, Jazi Eko Istiyanto, Chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Agency, BAPETEN Indonesia and President of the Conference, Denis Flory, IAEA Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Nuclear Safety and Security.
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
How to secure SSH login with one-time passwords on Linux
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This museum security guy decided it was best to stand right next to the installation and adjust his trousers.
Future Security Forum at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington DC 04/29/19. Photo Credit: Nicholas Karlin of Karlin Villondo Photography www.karlinvillondo.com
the Thought Police are everywhere...watch out for hidden cameras....had a funny feeling that I was being watched when I was doing this picture...strange.....thanks for looking.....best bigger.....hope you have a great weekend